Yeah, we had some minor damage at our tent on Washington at the end of
Gay St., maybe a $1000 at most retail, but I sold one at a discount on
Sunday, and will rework one by distressing it even more to balance the
piece out and put it back on display, so that probably drops me down to
under a $100 for lost marketing materials and business cards that
floated away and a print that dropped one corner into the water. One of
my boxes got knocked over in the confusion. My iPhone got a little wet
and gave some weird errors, but a little cleaning and desiccants/rice it
seems to have corrected it
We had no real warning on our end, just a storm coming in several hours.
We saw the clouds building on our right blowing past and some distant
lightning so we started packing expecting rain, then the wind hit and
all hell broke loose. luckily our trailer was behind the booth so we had
stored a lot of unused prints and equipment in it. We scrambled to get
our wagons (frame storage) into the tent, then I ran to the front and
dropped the front awning and zipped the front wall twice as one side
would unzip when I went to get the other side. At one point it was
almost straight into the booth, but I got it down, then spent the rest
of the storm at the left front corner in the rain and hail holding that
leg tight with the leg of an emerging artists provided tent that didn't
have a lot of weight. The other side of my booth had almost 200 pounds
of weight due to using heavy grid wall panels and heavy prints on top of
my weights. All was tied into the booth.
Most of my damage either came from a zipper hitting a print, or from the
6" of water standing in the bottom of the tent due to a clogged storm drain.
Two booths, 2 doors down were lost, one the roof collapsed, (light dome
maybe), then the display walls fell dumping all of his work (pen / ink
drawings) into the flood. He figured a $10,000 loss, but did have
insurance. A glass artist's tent rolled. (maybe an trimline) I think he
was cut pretty bad on the leg. The center support was twisted into an S
and many of the corner supports broken. He setup without a tent the next day
The EZ-up beside us started to go, but they saw what was happening when
their walls/display dropped (cashmere sweaters) into the flood. They
were able to drop the tent down and save it. I had told them they could
tie into my weights with their tent, and they did. They thought that was
the only thing keeping the whole tent from flying. They were able to
setup the next day, with extra inventory they had with them.
Mark I didn't realize your tent got hit, sorry to hear that.
The crowd did turn out on Sunday in support though and it was a pretty
good day for us until the threat of the next storm sent everyone scrambling.
Rob
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